Chords for Jim Reeves - Billy Bayou

My guests join me in saluting the Boy Scouts of America.
More than five million Boy Scouts for over 50 years of service
have written splendid pages in America's history
and have climbed the scouting trail to dedicated adult service.
The character building and citizenship training program of the Boy Scouts
has been a profound influence on our American way of life
in the home and the church and the nation.
Character counts.
Their very own slogan, Be Prepared,
is indicative of their contribution to character building and citizenship training.
Join with us in this salute to the Boy Scouts
by helping the scouting program in your own hometown.
Better boys make a better America.
Scouts honor to the Boy Scouts everywhere.
And now a favorite of mine for my favorite boys, the Boy Scouts,
Billy [D] Bio.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] Back [D] _
about 1800 and some,
a Louisiana [A] couple [D] had a son.
No name suited in Jim, Jack, or Joe,
they just called him Billy Bio.
[G] Billy, Billy [D] Bio, watch where you go.
[A] If you're walking on [D] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy [Bm] Bio, watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will get [Bm] you one of these [D] days.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [D]
Billy was a boy kind of big for his size,
red hair and [A] freckles and big [D] blue eyes.
Thirteen years from the day he was born,
Bill fought the battle [A] of the little [D] bighorn.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [D] watch where you go.
[A] If you're walking on [Bm] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy [D] Bio, watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will get [D] you one of these days.
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ [D]
One sad day, Billy cried,
Ho, ho, I can whip the feathers off a G runny moe.
He smarted off, the chief got mad.
This nearly ended our Louisiana lad.
[G] Billy, Billy Bio, [Bm] watch where [D] you go.
[A] If you're walking on [Bm] quicksand, walk slow.
[G] Billy, Billy [Bm] Bio, watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will get [D] you one of these days.
_ _ _ _ _ [A] _ [D]
One day in 1878,
a pretty girl [A] walked through [D] Bill's front gate.
He didn't know whether to stand there or run.
He wound up [A] married, cause he [D] didn't either [G] one.
Billy, Billy [D] Bio, watch where you go.
[A] If you're walking on [D] quicksand, walk [G] slow.
Billy, Billy [D] Bio, watch what you say.
[A] A pretty girl will [D] get you one of these [A] days.
Pretty girl will [D] get you one of these days.
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